“You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get ...” — Don Winslow Quote

You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.

A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.

I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working.

Police work in major cities - and New York is no exception - has always been vulnerable to corruption. Teddy Roosevelt built his career on it.

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.

I'm so grateful for everything that's happened. I love my work. People have such hurdles - I just wanted to perform, and I wanted my parents to be proud, and they were proud.

We've all, you know, done things that we think at the time were bad, but actually, in hindsight, you look back and go, 'I'm really grateful that happened because I'm a stronger person.'

I'm really grateful for my time in Jacksonville. Those fans, that community.

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.